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Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do

ISBN13: 9780385488655
ISBN10: 0385488653
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Christina Middlebrook was not quite fifty when she was told that a lump in her breast was not only malignant, but had already metastasized, and she had a fifty-percent chance of surviving more than two years. In her beautiful, unflinching memoir, Middlebrook conveys the physical and emotional ordeal of coming to terms with her own imminent death. Candid and courageous, Middlebrook's memoir honestly relates her story, which, unlike many books about illness that end in triumph, can offer no reassuring conclusion. In the tradition of William Styron's Darkness Visible, Seeing the Crab is a true and incredibly powerful story of facing the unthinkable with grace.

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ISBN:: 9780385488655
Subtitle:: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do
Author:: Middlebrook, Christina
Publisher:: Random House
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Health Care Delivery
Subject:: Specific Groups
Subject:: Breast
Subject:: Cancer
Subject:: Medical
Subject:: Terminally ill
Subject:: Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Publication Date:: January 1998
Binding:: Trade Paper
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 224
Dimensions:: 7.98x5.22x.64 in. .40 lbs.

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